Today, Thursday Nov 19th is the last day of our Breakfast class, so our usual brunch day of Friday is moved to today. It will be a crazy night. The large room attached to our dining room has been taken over by another group with no consideration for our needs. There is an event Saturday morning, and already they have tables set up and stolen some of our necessities. Water goblets, salt and pepper shakers, even one of our tables was taken. We took them all back, it is just sad for the fact these things happened to us. Chef says this happens to him at least once a semester, and it makes him very upset, but no one will do anything to help him no matter who he tells.
We have a list of reservations that along will fill our dining room and the buffet table will be in the server station. We will have a line out the door. We are even bringing in folding tables to replace some of ours that will take up more room than they will. We are even setting up tables in the little hallway/entry way from the rest of the school and the host desk. I am really concerned about the lack of room, it will be 10 times as crazy as usual and the buffet will last probably an extra hour to accommodate everyone.
My job title today is “Meat”. Usually that person cuts and prepares the meat so that it can be passed off to the range people to be cooked. I will probably be cooking some myself and then carving meat to order on the buffet line. I haven’t cooked anything for the buffet since the first week, so I am excited to say “I cooked that”. My mom and step-dad will be coming and possibly sister. The husband and kids won’t be coming because of timing with picking up kids and the crazy busyness that will be there.
